Francis Floud

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Short description|British civil servant and diplomat (1875–1965)}} '''Sir Francis Lewis Castle Floud''' [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] (18 May 1875 – 17 April 1965) was a British civil servant and diplomat. Very unusually, he received three knighthoods for his public services.

==Early life== Floud came from a clerical family. He was educated at [[Cranleigh School]] and [[King's College London]], having refused to go to Oxford University because he did not wish to enter the church; his younger brother went in his stead. He entered the Board of Agriculture at a junior level in 1894 and, while working there, qualified as a barrister of [[Lincoln's Inn]].

==Service life== He served in a variety of posts before being appointed, in 1920, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He was chairman of the board of customs and excise from 1927 to 1930 and then permanent secretary of the Ministry of Labour (1930-1934) during the very difficult period following the financial crisis, when unemployment and other benefits were cut by the National government. He served as [[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Canada|British high commissioner to Canada]] from 1934 to 1938.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukincanada.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-canada/our-high-commissioner/previous-high-commissioners |title=Previous High Commissioners |website=ukincanada.fco.gov.uk |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202022951/http://ukincanada.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-canada/our-high-commissioner/previous-high-commissioners |archive-date=2 December 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and was invested as a [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in the [[1938 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34469|supp=y|page=5|date= 31 December 1937}}</ref>

==Floud Commission== From 1938 to 1940 he chaired the Bengal Land Revenue Commission, for which he was appointed a Knight Commander to the [[Order of the Star of India]] (KCSI) in the [[1941 New Year Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 35029|supp=y|page=4|date= 1 January 1941}}</ref> and, in his retirement, a number of other public bodies.<ref>Who Was Who 2014</ref>

==Family== Francis Floud married, in 1909, Phyllis, daughter of Colonel Everard A. Ford. They had two sons, [[Peter Floud]] and [[Bernard Floud]] MP and a daughter Phyllis, who married Peter du Sautoy.

== External links ==

* [https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1565 The Papers of Sir Francis Floud] held at [[Churchill Archives Centre]]

==References== {{reflist}}

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{{s-bef|before=Sir [[Horace Hamilton]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Chairman of the<br />[[Board of Customs and Excise]]|years=1927–1930}} {{s-aft|after=Sir [[James Grigg]]}}

{{s-bef|before=Sir [[Horace Wilson (civil servant)|Horace Wilson]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Permanent Secretary]] of the<br />[[Ministry of Labour (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Labour]]|years=1930–1934}} {{s-aft|after=Sir [[Thomas Williams Phillips]]}} {{s-dip}} {{succession box| before=[[William Henry Clark|Sir William Clark]]| title=[[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Canada|British High Commissioner to Canada]]| years=1934–1938| after=[[Gerald Campbell|Sir Gerald Campbell]] }} {{s-end}}

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